Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals are greatly welcome to join the SlideBoom PRO community. If you are a PowerPoint MVP, please contact us at sales@slideboom.com and we will provide you with an annual subscription for a PRO account and a copy of iSpring Presenter, a premium PowerPoint to Flash software. Please, put “PowerPoint MVP” in a subject blank.
MVPs specializing in other Microsoft products are granted a 50% discount for a PRO subscription of any duration and for both bestselling iSpring editions – Pro and Presenter. Apply for your half price offer at sales@slideboom.com, “MVP” subject will make it happen sooner.
So just email your request any time at your option during all three summer months, and let us thank for your recognized experience in IT.
PRO account developers’ desire for excellence knows no boundaries and no limits. So PRO users received two great novelties.
First, they can now track detailed viewers statistics. This means they now have access to the data of who, where, when and how views your content. It covers:
Traffic - how often an item is viewed
Traffic Locations - from where my presentations are viewed
Traffic Demography - what the sex ratio among my viewers is
Progress - how many slides they view
Embeds - where my presentations have been embedded into
Viewers - who viewed my presentations
Activity - what the activity for a presentation is
User Activity - what presentations a user viewed
As you see, this kind of data is absolutely irreplaceable especially if you are using PRO account for marketing purposes.
Second, Slidelog got a new Modern theme available in six different colors: blue, dark red, turquoise, purple, green and orange. Give a full scope to your creative thinking and artistic abilities.
Stay tuned and learn about new features as soon as they get added.
How about a YouTube video broadcasted at one of your slides? Hosted at SlideBoom or embedded anywhere on the web, your presentation can have a YouTube video inserted right into it, without sending your viewer to any external resource.
How to do this? It’s quite simple now. Just download one of the iSpring 4.2 PowerPoint add-ins. Even the free version of this PowerPoint to Flash software supports YouTube video insert. Click YouTube icon on iSpring panel in your PowerPoint and paste a selected YouTube video URL into the appropriate field. You are also offered to watch a tutorial on how to make it happen.
And what’s particularly great about it is that your presentation can be published directly to SlideBoom afterwards. Just select it as your output file final destination and specify your SlideBoom account details.
So as you see it’s probably more complicated to pick out the right YouTube clip than all what it takes to insert it into your online presentation. Here is a demo presentation with a YouTube video inserted:
We are happy to announce that we are hosting a major event – SlideBoom Presentation Contest 2009. This contest is a unique opportunity to reveal your creative potential and experience and to get a professional expertise of your presentation.
Applicants are welcome to submit their works from 18 May to 21 June inclusive. Winners will be announced on 30 June 2009.
The top three winners will be awarded valuable prizes like SlideBoom Presentation Contest 2009 Winner Cup, a lifetime subscription for PRO account, advanced iSpring Presenter software and Gold Award badge.
All the members of SlideBoom Presentation Contest 2009 group will get Contest Participant badges HTML codes to post at their competing presentation page.
Hurry up! Remember that the sooner you upload your applicant slideshow, the more votes you can collect throughout the Contest timeframe!
Today I have a short, but nice and important announcement.
SlideBoom now supports files of Open Document Presentation format. ODP format is used in free office suites like OpenOffice, NeoOffice or IBM Lotus Symphony and proprietary software packages like Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice . This would definately expand SlideBoom community as it now is available for a whole lot of the above software users.
Even if you are a Microsoft Office user and SlideBoom has been your service since its launch, you win from .odp format support too. Just think of all those people who will join SlideBoom. This means that you gain a new and numerous audience! Is not that pleasing?
Not only our developers are working hard adding new and new features for your better experience at SlideBoom. Our designers are just as hardworking and diligent. They know that visual perception is just as important as usability.
SlideBoom design is now completely different. They’ve also attempted to enhance user interface remodelling My Account page layout. So it’s now really handy. And, you can track your free hosting space left at any point, as it displayed the percentage of used storage.
So welcome new stylish and professional design of our website. Enjoy its comfort and beauty. Upload more, surprise and delight your audience now not only by your presentation masterpieces, but by the nice framework of their hosting facility.
Private presentations can now be shared unbelievably easily. No extra clicks required, just copy Private Access URL on your presentation page and send it out to your potential viewers.
If your secret link for some reason looses its privacy, you can generate a new one by clicking “Generate a new private access URL”.
Don’t hesitate to deliver your presentation by “Share by email” or “Share with group” options, depending on whom you would like to share it with.
PRO account users also get a chance to distribute access to their secret presentations by sharing a link accessible from Share this:
“Generate a new private key” option is also available for the Pro users.
Additional presentation password protection will shortly be available with a new release of iSpring Presenter PowerPoint add-in.
Many of our users are interested in what business solutions we offer within the Business tab of our website. In this post I will try to make things clear for everyone.
SlideBoom Cloud is a web service for PowerPoint to Flash conversion. It can be easily integrated with your application and thereby extend it with PowerPoint to Flash conversion facility.
SlideBoom Cloud has a number of advantages:
1. Quick integration, no extra development required
2. No need to create and support presentations conversion infrastructure (Window-server, MS Office, security protection).
3. Rapid scaling. It means that even if your application is overloaded, you don’t have to worry, if your infrastructure can handle it. SlideBoom Cloud infrastructure takes care of thousands of presentations every month, and it always has got a safety factor.
SlideBoom Cloud provides not only conversion facilities but also slide hosting space if required. This way you are well off as you don’t have to worry of your presentations hosting space.
SlideBoom SDK is a set of components that you may use for constructing your own SlideBoom like portal.
If you like SlideBoom and would like to have a similar functionality portal for your company, we can offer you SlideBoom SDK solution for your corporate portal construction.
If you would like to deploy some of the SlideBoom functionalities into your business application, then again SlideBoom SDK can be a perfect solution.
We individually approach every single SlideBoom SDK user and offer our consulting services (deployment, professional development and technical support) to help you create a complete application.
More good news from the SlideBoom development team. They’ve waved a magic wand, and here come new playback settings:
1. PowerPoint like Playback
- for those who have worked many hours on a PowerPoint presentation and just want for it to look exactly the same way at SlideBoom. We added a new playback option that will preserve all of original PowerPoint playback settings along with synchronized timings by default.
2. Video like Playback
- if all you need is a smooth flow of your entire slideshow. Plus, you can select duration for static slides (with no animations or sounds).
Playback settings can be applyied when first uploading a presentation to SlideBoom.
It now has been over a year of determined work upon our service and its facilities, and this work is well worth it.
Now SlideBoom is one of the most popular slide hosting services on the web. Many Internet publications mention SlideBoom among the three industry leaders along with Slideshare and Authorstream.
However, the most precious achievement for us is thousands of happy users that find our service very attractive and handy. They also choose SlideBoom because of high quality PowerPoint to Flash conversion and opportunities to embed presentation to blogs and websites.
Other important event this year is PRO account launch. We have designed a set of extra advanced features that are important for many people. So now a lot of SlideBoom users switched to PRO accounts that give them opportunity to use our slide hosting service for their business purposes.
Nice start! and it’s just the beginning… We are full of ideas that our users share with us to help us make SlideBoom a dream slide hosting service.
